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The Classroom is Sacred. By Siva Vaidhyanathan Sivav@virginia.edu @sivavaid. A Reason to Believe. The university has been digitized. A Reason for Caution. Not all digitization efforts are brilliant, or even necessary. Universities are Copy Machines. Lesson 1:.
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The Classroom is Sacred • By Siva Vaidhyanathan • Sivav@virginia.edu • @sivavaid
A Reason to Believe • The university has been digitized
A Reason for Caution • Not all digitization efforts are brilliant, or even necessary
Lesson 1: • “The University” is not one thing.
Lesson 2 • The classroom is a “fifth” space.
Lesson 3 • The classroom is a place to experiment
Lesson 4 • The classroom is a place for traditions and rituals
Lesson 5 • Teachers are performers, and thus liars.
Lesson 6 • Teaching is not the dissemination of information.
Lesson 7 • Teaching is not the curation or selection of information
Lesson 8 • Teaching ain’t easy
Lesson 9 • Teaching is a public service, but not in every sense of “public.”
Lesson 10 • Public-service duty of higher education demands openness with respect for traditions, needs of students.
Content-Provider Paradox • Universities occupy every place on the diagram of content production, dissemination, and consumption.